Johnstown flood the day the dam burst

An account of the great Johnstown, Pennsylvania, flood of 1889, when a dam failed and over two thousand people died, making this one of the worst peacetime disasters in the history of the United States.

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Main Author: Gow, Mary
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley Heights, NJ : Enslow Publishers, c2003.
Series:American disasters
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505 0 |a Dangerous proposition -- The dam in the mountains -- Prepare for the worst -- "The end of the world" -- Relief and recovery -- The future. 
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